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A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened…
A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union believers have with God and Christ, and the glorious privileges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nigh.A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union beleevers have with God and Christ, and the glorious priviledges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A word to both.
1. As adjoined to the Essence; for ye have heard, that these Relations are not qualities inherent in the subject, but attendants; and then I say, they are all with the same whole Essence, and so one with another. So Wisdom, the Lord Christ, Prov. 8.27. When he prepared the Heavens, I was there, when he gave to the Son his decree, ver. 30. I was with him. John, 1.1. The Word with God, that is, the Father, and it was God, that is, had the Essence of the Deity.
1. As adjoined to the Essence; for ye have heard, that these Relations are not qualities inherent in the subject, but attendants; and then I say, they are al with the same whol Essence, and so one with another. So Wisdom, the Lord Christ, Prov. 8.27. When he prepared the Heavens, I was there, when he gave to the Son his decree, ver. 30. I was with him. John, 1.1. The Word with God, that is, the Father, and it was God, that is, had the Essence of the Deity.
2. As the Subsistences look at the Essence with his Relative Properties, so in Relation each Person gives being each to another, and is one in another, John, 14.9. The Father dwells in Christ. That cannot in any propriety of speech be said of the Essence, that the Persons dwell in the God-head, because they are Relations, and therefore no impression in the subject. So, hence our Saviour is said to be in the bosom, and come from the Bosom of the Father. Hence he is said,